OREANDA-NEWS. December 05, 2013. ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih secured second place in the 2013 transparency index rating by the renowned Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility in Ukraine.

This comes in recognition, among other things, of the significant improvements made to ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih’s website, in particular its corporate responsibility section.

Judges were impressed with the high level of transparency and information available on the company’s corporate responsibility activities, compared with the websites of other Ukrainian companies.

The website was assessed based on four major criteria:

reporting – report on social and environmental activity of the company

content – the level of openness of information in key areas of corporate responsibility;

navigation – easy access to information about the special and environmental responsibilities of the company;

availability – in terms of languages available, contact information, access for people with disabilities.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih’s website was re-launched in 2013, after a series of technical and design improvements in line with ArcelorMittal corporate online standards. New functionalities were added, such as a multi-language platform, enhanced navigation and search engine, all of which allows visitors to have better, easier and quicker access to information. Particular emphasis has been placed on the website’s corporate responsibility section, which has been enhanced taking into account the transparency index’s requirements, as well as the suggestions and comments shared by visitors via an online feedback form available on the former website.

The website had already made it into the top five of the transparency index rating in 2012, ranking fourth.

About the transparency index
The index is compiled by the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, the leading corporate social responsibility organisation in Ukraine and also a member of the United Nations’ Board of Global Agreement of UN, a national partner of CSR Europe in Brussels and member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) in Geneva.

The transparency index was founded to promote transparent access to information among Ukrainian companies, and is now in its third year. In 2013, 88 companies were involved in the rating, including DTEK, Metinvest, SKM, Interpipe Ukraine, Industrial Union of Donbass, Kyivstar, and MTS Ukraine.